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Former Facebook security chief calls out Apple for privacy hypocrisy
Tim Cook’s warnings about an “industrial data complex” have been met with accusations of hypocrisy from Facebook’s former security supremo.
Facebook stopped 8.7m nude images of children in 3 months
Facebook blocked 8.7m images of child nudity and exploitative content in 3 months.
Google and Facebook accused of secretly tracking users’ locations
Google and Facebook have been hit separately by class action lawsuits accusing them of secretly tracking user locations.
Alleged robber busted after Facebook-friending victim to apologize
He told her to put down the pizza delivery and all her money on top of it. 26 days later, he found her on Facebook and reached out.
Apple privacy portal lets you see everything it knows about you
The Apple website’s privacy and data area lets you download and correct your data.
Facebook opens up about data breach details
Two weeks after Facebook’s first serious data breach, and the social network has shared what it has figured out so far.
Instagram tests sharing your location history with Facebook
Instagram is testing Facebook Location History – which allows the tracking of precise locations from your device – in its app.
291 records breached per second in first half of 2018
Over 4.5 billion data records were breached in the first half of this year, according to Gemalto’s Breach Level Index released this week.
Don’t fall for the Facebook ‘2nd friend request’ hoax
Cloned accounts are a real thing, but this viral message isn’t. Don’t forward it!